We have just loaded a complete rewrite of the web site for POSE, our festival and event management software. Thanks to Manase Foa’i (http://www.nasyana.com/) for his aesthetic graphics. This will give event managers a more comprehensive first look at the product. We will upload even more screen shots of the program as time permits.

Teal and Rene have beaten me to the punch and already uploaded some of Bronwyn’s pictures to their site while I am still to get any of Bronnie’s pictures loaded to the healthelicious site. Let you know when I do.

The number of Windows computers infected with the new “downadup” worm – also known as “Conficker” and “Kido” – has exploded to almost 9 million worldwide, from roughly 2.4 million last Thursday, according to the computer security company F-Secure. more

An industry panel of more than 30 US and international cyber security organisations has published a list of the top 25 programming security errors, and warned that the next generation of developers is still not being trained to deal with the problems. More... The list is
here.

PDFMoto is a unique, and nifty tool you might want to take a look at. If you use numerous programs, like Word, Excel, to publish web pages then PDFMoto is a must.

The program takes your documents, and converts them into PDFs which can easily be added to your website’s structure. Navigation, and linking are automatically created. The XML side of things is handled with a powerful template system. here

Scientific evidence suggests that about one-third of the 565,650 American cancer deaths that were expected to occur in 2008 would be related to obesity, physical inactivity, and nutrition–and thus, could have been prevented. here

Timely reminder about what NOT to get your significant other as a gift: here

Make Your Earphones Last

Making your earphones last longer is as simple as just taking better care of them. Read more
here

If you are a member of Yahoo Groups, this may be of interest to you

Yahoo is Tracking Group Members
If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now using “Web Beacons” to track every Yahoo Group user. It’s similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group you visit, even when you’re not connected to Yahoo. Look at their updated privacy statement at http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html

About half-way down the page, in the section on *cookies*, you will see a link that says *WEB BEACONS*. Click on the phrase “Web Beacons”. On the page that opens, on the left find a box entitled “Opt-Out”. In that section find “opt-out of interest-matched advertising” link that will let you “opt-out” of their snooping. Click it and then click the opt-out button on the next page. Note that Yahoo’s invasion of your privacy - and your ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is _browser_ specific. That means you will have to opt-out on every browser on every computer you use. Please forward this article.